What we have here now is a triple-teaming of Democrat progressives: Manchin takes the lead, gives the appearance he’ll maybe accept a lower total spending. Sinema then jumps in and adds more demands

What’s needed instead is a total radical overhaul of the US tax system

Both tax measures are just smoke and mirrors, intended for public consumption in order to make it appear the Biden administration is going after the super-rich to fund its Build Back Better bill

All the phony positioning in Congress over the attempt to ‘claw back’ just some of Trump’s $4.5T 2017 tax cuts totally ignores the real solution to all of the financing of the fiscal stimulus bills: A Financial Transactions Tax

How Workers Survive When Not Returning to Work

We are witnessing the ‘Great Strike of 2021’ and it’s composed mostly of millions low paid non-unionized workers

Thousands of corporate lobbyists have invaded Washington D.C.  in recent months, with the single purpose of demanding the Democrats don’t touch the Trump tax cuts

The costs of maintaining empire have now become greater than the costs of extending empire for the US. It’s a cost of empire and a juncture the US had never faced since 1944-45

After averaging 750,000 jobs over the preceding three months, from May to July 2021, job recovery this past August fell by more than two-thirds, to only 235,000

The US is pulling out because, for the first time since 1945, it has decided to cut its costs in less strategic areas in order to be able to finance the growing costs of empire elsewhere